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Good Question: What Can You Buy With Food Stamps?CBS LocalMINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – In an average month, 514,900 Minnesotans receive SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps. The average monthly payment is $117.26 per person. In a visit to Bergan's SuperValu Foods, WCCO loaded seven items into a … More: continued here

House votes to cut food stamps by $2 billionBoston.comWASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill. The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have …Texas delegation divided …

WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill. More: continued here

House Votes to Cut Food StampsABC NewsThe chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to a wide-ranging farm bill that would have maintained current spending on food stamps and cut farm subsidies instead. The bill cuts the $80 billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it …Texas delegation divided on farm …

House votes to cut food stamps77Square.comThe chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to a wide-ranging farm bill that would have maintained current spending on food stamps and cut farm subsidies instead. The bill cuts the $80 billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it … More: continued here

House makes cuts to food stamps in farm bill89.3 KPCC (blog)The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved $20 billion in cuts to food stamps— now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — over the next 10 years. The cuts are part of the farm bill being debated …

Slay, 17 other mayors: Limit use of food stamps to buy sodaKMOV.comNEW YORK—The mayors of St. Louis, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and 14 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks. In a letter sent to congressional leaders …

FedEx is trimming fewer U.S. employees than most analysts believed, while creating more savings than the company previously expected. More: continued here

Methven Post shop’s Carol McAndrew says her town has about three inches of snow. More: continued here

Reading area mail slowed by post office movesReading EagleAmong the customers affected is Albright College, which receives hundreds or thousands of pieces of mail daily in its post office box in the Yatron facility, said Albright spokesman Tom Durso. The school's mail clerk used to be able to get that …